| 单词 | mess |
| 释义 | mess (mes ) Word forms: messes , messing , messed 1. singular noun B1 If you say that something is a mess or in a mess, you think that it is in an untidy state. The house is a mess. The wrong shampoo can leave curly hair in a tangled mess. Linda can't stand mess. Synonyms: untidiness, disorder, confusion, chaos 2. variable noun B2 If you say that a situation is a mess, you mean that it is full of trouble or problems. You can also say that something is in a mess. I've made such a mess of my life. ...the many reasons why the economy is in such a mess. She'd got herself into a mess, of that he was certain. Synonyms: shambles, botch, hash, cock-up [British, slang] 3. variable noun B1 A mess is something liquid or sticky that has been accidentally dropped on something. Finally, making a dreadful mess, they devour the fruit. I'll clear up the mess later. 4. countable noun [usually singular] The mess at a military base or military barracks is the building in which members of the armed forces can eat or relax. ...a party at the officers' mess. He hurried to the Mess to find the control officer. Phrasal verbs: mess around regional note: in BRIT, also use mess about 1. phrasal verb If you mess around or mess about, you spend time doing things without any particular purpose or without achieving anything. We were just messing around, playing with paint. [VERB PARTICLE] Stop messing about and go and buy one. [VERB PARTICLE] Boys and girls will enjoy messing about with any kind of machine. [VERB PARTICLE + with] 2. phrasal verb If you say that someone is messing around with or messing about with something, you mean that they are interfering with it in a harmful way. I'd like to know who's been messing about with the pram. [VERB PARTICLE + with] 3. phrasal verb If someone is messing around or messing about, they are behaving in a joking or silly way. I thought she was messing about. [VERB PARTICLE] 4. phrasal verb If you mess someone around or mess them about, you treat them badly, for example by not being honest with them, or by continually changing plans which affect them. [mainly British] Davison had pulled out of a move to his old club because they had 'messed him about'. [VERB noun PARTICLE] I think they've been messed around far too much. [VERB noun PARTICLE] mess up 1. phrasal verb B2 If you mess something up or if you mess up, you cause something to fail or be spoiled. [informal] When politicians mess things up, it is the people who pay the price. [VERB noun PARTICLE] He had messed up one career. [VERB PARTICLE noun] If I messed up, I would probably be fired. [VERB PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb B2 If you mess up a place or a thing, you make it untidy or dirty. [informal] They probably didn't want to mess up their hair. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 3. phrasal verb If something messes someone up, it causes them to be very confused or worried, or to have psychological problems. [informal] That really messed them up, especially the boys. [VERB noun PARTICLE] mess with phrasal verb If you tell someone not to mess with a person or thing, you are warning them not to get involved with that person or thing. You are messing with people's religion and they don't like that. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Do you know who you're messing with–do you know who I am? [VERB PARTICLE noun] Collocations: complete mess He also made a complete mess of a winning position on the 17th hole. Times, Sunday Times You come off the pier and are faced with this complete mess. Times, Sunday Times There's so much complexity, it's a complete mess. The Sun The offers so far are a complete mess, with lots of stuff about birds tweeting. Times, Sunday Times It's left schools and colleges in a complete mess. Times, Sunday Times We all fi t into the mess tent and sleep for a couple of hours. Times, Sunday Times And over dinner in our mess tent, he regaled us with wild mountaineering stories that made us look at him in awe and wonderment. Times, Sunday Times He then ordered me to stay behind in the mess tent, informed everyone that he needed to 'tie me up', and produced an assortment of bandages and tape. Times, Sunday Times By 7am, we'd have finished breakfast in the mess tent: porridge, freshly baked bread, jam, marmalade, maybe an egg or some yoghurt. Times, Sunday Times There's no mess tent; you dine under the stars as the campfire crackles. Times, Sunday Times It got to be a muddy mess after a while. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although this has left the roads and landscape a muddy mess for the present, it gives us hope that great things are ahead. Christianity Today By all accounts, the playing surface had been a muddy mess. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The rain that had delayed the game a day turned the field into a muddy mess. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The march was significantly slowed by early monsoon rains that turned the march into a muddy mess. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We don't always want to be confronted with our dark side, or even just the sloppy mess of our mixed motives. Times, Sunday Times They are essentially the engine that propels this sloppy mess for an hour. Times, Sunday Times The first cakes were a sloppy mess. Times, Sunday Times But when the time came all it contained was a 'soggy mess'. The Sun But down came the rain, and by the next morning when she looked out of her window the heart was a soggy mess. Times, Sunday Times Well, a bit of a soggy mess, to be honest. Times, Sunday Times The foliage of hostas and iris will flop and drop to the ground in a soggy mess, which can look unsightly but if left to rot can encourage fungal diseases. Times, Sunday Times Repeated opening and closing in the rain turned our unlaminated map into a soggy mess. Globe and Mail And what a sorry mess it turned out to be. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Still there is some good news to come out of the sorry mess. The Sun (2014) It is a sorry mess he is trying to sort out. The Sun (2012) Football needs more officials and less dissent to sort out this mess. Times, Sunday Times The 100,000-aweek striker, right, had to call in a valeting company to sort out the mess, which didn't come cheap. The Sun So beefed-up regulation will come under irresistible pressure to sort out the mess. Times, Sunday Times But only on the proviso that they sort out this mess, and fast. Times, Sunday Times Even then it seemed reluctant to sort out the mess it created. Times,Sunday Times But you can't compare the ease of just hopping on a sunbed to the smell and sticky mess of fake tan. The Sun With this, you have to apply just a single layer, otherwise you will end up with a sticky mess. Times, Sunday Times If you skip this step and try to do it while they're still warm, the pastry will melt into a sticky mess. Times, Sunday Times Labels that peel easily off things like jars and items bought as gifts, without leaving a sticky mess. The Sun Burning nylon releases noxious gasses and leaves a sticky mess on the land. Times, Sunday Times My life and ministry were a tangled mess. Christianity Today In this setting the tangled mess of my life began to unfold. Christianity Today He inherited a tangled mess of legal and insurance liabilities surrounding the case when he was promoted to chief executive last year. Times, Sunday Times They redrew states out of the tangled mess of broken empires and in so doing created problems for the future. Times, Sunday Times If they are a tangled mess then don't hold back and cut them back close to ground level and mulch over. Times, Sunday Times We are in a terrible mess and, with the money gone, what happens now? Times, Sunday Times He has, however, left behind a most terrible mess. Times, Sunday Times We wouldn't be in this terrible mess now. The Sun He stays up all night and eats a lot leaving a terrible mess for me in the morning. Times, Sunday Times But if you go into schools and start trying to teach that very non-belief as an orthodoxy, you're in danger of making a terrible mess. Times, Sunday Times After a few minutes of staring at the shelf, the array of candidates blurs into one ugly mess. Times, Sunday Times They're a smelly, festering, ugly mess. The Sun From a distance my country and its rulers look an ugly mess, and so beneath the level of events. Times, Sunday Times In the morning, my mouth was still a bit of a fat, ugly mess but, just for a while, a sense of satisfaction remained, too. Times, Sunday Times It's an unholy mess, the perfumed delicacy of the premium koshihikari rice lost. Times,Sunday Times Maybe one day the good will rise up against the bad and then there will be an unholy mess to clear up. The Sun A joint editorial by the three leading health journals describes the planned reforms as 'an unholy mess'. Times, Sunday Times But one parishioner called it 'an unholy mess'. The Sun All this has the potential to turn into an unholy mess of lorry queues and empty shelves. Times,Sunday Times That's my role-to untangle that mess so that their dreams and gifts can be released for the sake of the kingdom. Christianity Today I doubt whether anything much can be done to untangle this mess. Times, Sunday Times Supernatural abilities are needed to untangle the mess. Christianity Today Now she couldn't untangle the mess. Christianity Today Or untangled the mess of my hair. Times, Sunday Times I woke up nights thinking about the whole mess. Christianity Today In short, the whole mess could have been avoided if someone had simply sent an e-mail. Times, Sunday Times Has everyone forgotten the way this whole mess started? Times, Sunday Times And let there be syrup ladled over the whole mess of it— fudgeslides slipping through triple-decker gorges into caramel rivers, into an ocean of sugary run-off. Christianity Today The whole mess was compounded by the first inquest that ended in 1991. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 混乱 Japanese: 散乱 |
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